Mary Naylor recounts Stories from Mill Road Cemetery: as told to the Friends of Mill Road Cemetery

For every person buried in Mill Road Cemetery, the website has a message which reads "If you have any further information about this person or family, please contact us at [email protected]."

We are fortunate in that this has led to many people corresponding with us, sometimes sending us valuable stories and photographs, sometimes leading us to make further connections or to go down a quite different avenue of research; often the flow of information is two way. Mary Naylor tells us some of the resulting stories.

Read more about Mill Road Cemetery at https://www.millroadcemetery.org.uk
Read more about Mill Road History Society at https://www.millroadhistory.org.uk

Links mentioned in the talk:

Two stories you may want to look at yourselves:

http://millroadcemetery.org.uk/bailey... - or put Joseph Turner Bailey in the search box
http://millroadcemetery.org.uk/pooley... - or put AL395 in the search box

Useful sites:

https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/media/38...
Spaldings 1879 street directory - http://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books...
Frederick Leach - A Cambridge Artworkman and his firm - available from https://davidparrhouse.org/product/fr...
Whitmore wine shop - https://capturingcambridge.org/centre...
Cambridge photographers - http://www.fadingimages.uk/pot1.asp